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The Shrinking Man
''The Shrinking Man'' is a novel by Richard Matheson published in 1956.〔 It has been adapted into a motion picture twice, called ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'' in 1957, and ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'' in 1981, both by Universal Pictures. Another adaptation of the story has been proposed, which has been pushed back several times from 2001 to the current day. The novel was retitled ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'' in later editions. In 2012 it was included (under the original title) in the Library of America two-volume boxed set ''American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s'', edited by Gary K. Wolfe.
==Plot summary==
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.
The abnormal size decrease of his body initially brings teases and taunting from local youths, then causes friction in his marriage and family life, because he loses the respect his family has for him because of his diminishing physical stature. Ultimately, as the shrinking continues, it begins to threaten Carey's life as well; at seven inches tall, he is pursued by the family cat and driven outdoors, where he is attacked by a sparrow in his garden; the conflict drives him through a window into the cellar of his house. Although he survives on the cheese left over in a mousetrap for a while, his size is eventually reduced to less than half an inch, at which point he is forced to engage in a victorious battle with a black widow spider that towers over him.
As Carey continues shrinking, he realizes that his original fear that he would shrink into non-existence is incorrect; that he will continue to shrink, but will not disappear as he originally feared, his epiphanic thought being, "If nature existed on endless levels, so also might intelligence."
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